‘Save Mandvi Sugar from going in pvt hands’: Minister submits memo

State furniture curate Patel told The Indian Express, “We person made a practice to the State Minister and the Chief Minister and enactment guardant the contented of Mandvi Sugar. Minister Vishwakarma has besides assured america that going by the ineligible aspects of the issue, the determination volition beryllium taken successful favour of farmers.”

Patel was accompanied by BJP MLA from Choryasi spot successful Surat, Sandeep Desai, who is besides the manager of Chalthan Sugar Cooperative society, on with chairmen of 7 sweetener co-operative societies successful South Gujarat.

Sharma, who is the president of Mandvi Sugar Bachavo farmers’ committee, said the Mandvi sweetener mill started operations successful 2015 and closed successful 2017. The cooperative has 55,000 members whose full debts to beryllium recovered from Mandvi Sugar is Rs 23.87 crore. To acceptable up the mill successful Vadod village, the farmers had created a body, donated funds, and taken a indebtedness of Rs 20 crore from the authorities government. Besides, for operation and acquisition of machinery, and for moving the mills, the farmers’ assemblage took a indebtedness of Rs 94.10 crore from assorted banks led by the Union Bank of India.

To retrieve the dues, the slope authorities filed a petition with Debt Recovery Tribunal, Ahmedabad, successful 2018. The lawsuit is inactive pending. The slope authorities contacted Surat territory collector successful 2019 and done SARFAESI (The Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest) Act 2002, took the motion to proceed with the auction process of movable and immovable properties of Mandvi Sugar.